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New version chess engine: Clover 9.0


Clover - UCI chess engine
Author: Luca Metehau Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3668

Clover 9.0 whats new?

New Clover release is here!
This time I got around generating a better dataset for my network, it's a combination of 5k, 20k min nodes, some DFRC data.
Also net arch changed a bit, I added input bucket factoriser. Special thanks to @jw1912 (Bullet creator), for Bullet, easy to use for a very customisable trainer.

This release is ~40 elo behind Alexandria 8.1 in 40s+0.4s testing conditions.
Have fun and report any bugs!

Note: This release might be a bit weaker in FRC and DFRC mode, due to my data being around 50% standard chess, 50% DFRC data vs 100% DFRC data before.

Clover 8.1.16 vs other engines:

Motor 0.9.011.5/22+122 Games
Berserk 2025060611/22+022 Games
RubiChess 2025052011/21+121 Games
Stockfish 17.19.5/19+019 Games
Starzix 6.1 JA9/19-119 Games
Fritz 2010/18+218 Games
Horsie 1.1.09.5/18+118 Games
Caissa 1.22 JA9/18+018 Games
Alexandria 8.0.0 JA9/18+018 Games
PlentyChess 6.0.0 JA6.5/15-215 Games
Integral 7.0.0 JA6.5/14-114 Games
RubiChess 20250606 JA6/12+012 Games
Obsidian dev-16.086/12+012 Games
Omega 6-M6/12+012 Games
SF PB 0306255.5/12-112 Games
Obsidian dev-16.075/11-111 Games
SF-PRO202.05.20255/10+010 Games
DarkSeid 6.04.5/10-110 Games
PlentyChess 6.0.04.5/9+09 Games
BlackFish 2705254.5/9+09 Games



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